Quotes 41 till 60 of 62.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
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Those, whose time is fully occupied, seldom complain of solitude.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXIX -
To live in the present only is as unnatural as to live in solitude.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
The Weight of Glory (1949) -
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
No last decision till we meet again.Alzira (1736) Act IV, Scene 1.
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